It just got a little easier to find health-care services closer to home.
On Thursday, the Ontario government launched two new initiatives to improve access to health care, and hopefully relieve stress on the province’s emergency rooms.
Health Care Connect aims to help people find a family health-care provider.
Dr. Mark Mensour, emergency department lead with the North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), said the program aims Read the rest of this entry »

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December 21, 2008 – December 27, 2008
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November 30, 2008 – December 6, 2008
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NEW YORK — Cynthia Casey’s husband was in the hospital with a failing liver when she was laid off in September, stranding the family without health insurance.
Medical bills were piling up. She had two teenagers to feed and a weekly unemployment check of less than $300.
“The bills just were not getting paid,” said Casey, a 50-year-old resident of Pompano Beach, Fla., who until recently worked as an accounts payable supervisor.
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Last week, the 125-year-old hospital said its owner had put it up for sale and warned that it was in danger of closing if a deal wasn’t struck, partly because of the inability of getting financing.
The state department overseeing health and family services “went to great lengths to help us keep the hospital open,” Curran said.
But at about 5 p.m. Wednesday, the hospital said it filed a letter of intent with the state to close the hospital.
State Read the rest of this entry »

BROWNSVILLE, Texas
— While border agents continue to be watchful for smugglers of guns, drugs and the usual dangerous contraband, their work this time of year takes on a decidedly holiday flavor as they also nab forbidden Mexican sausage, tamales and poinsettias.
Border traffic is thick with families on the move for holidays, but the car packed to the gills with gifts and coolers draws customs agents to check for the items many don’t think Read the rest of this entry »

Although there seems to be an endless of array of products on the market these days to assist with body image, there is one local business that has taken weight loss to a whole new level.
Fitness Ridge Resort and Spa in Ivins is an adult weight loss boot camp designed to highly motivate guests in their fitness regimes.
Michelle Kelsch, who owns Fitness Ridge with her husband, Cameron, and friend, Tami Clark, said there was a real need for the Read the rest of this entry »

Last week, the 125-year-old hospital said its owner had put it up for sale and warned that it was in danger of closing if a deal wasn’t struck, partly because of the inability of getting financing.
The state department overseeing health and family services “went to great lengths to help us keep the hospital open,” Curran said.
But at about 5 p.m. Wednesday, the hospital said it filed a letter of intent with the state to close the hospital.
State Read the rest of this entry »

Saturday, October 04, 2008
Wildlife managers always have turned to hunters to help control game populations.
It’s surely not the most effective system and you’ll find arguments pro and con about hunting’s efficacy, from the disappearance of the passenger pigeon to the semi-control the Division of Wildlife struggles to maintain over elk herds.
However, there are some areas, notably our national parks where hunting isn’t Read the rest of this entry »

Here is where the data become interesting. Each woman in the National Survey of Family Growth who is seeking to adopt was asked about the characteristics of the child she would “prefer” to adopt or would “accept.” The answers are eye-opening when compared with the facts that Health and Human Services has made public about the children waiting to be adopted. Consider:
•521,400 survey respondents said they would adopt a black child. In fact, Read the rest of this entry »

Using a technique known as X-ray crystallography, VAI researchers
determined the molecular structure of the part of the CRF receptor that sticks
outside of the cell and binds to CRF and other proteins in the same family.
This detailed structural information can help drug developers engineer a drug
that more perfectly fits to the receptor, making the drug more potent.
Researchers determined the structure of the receptor in three different
scenarios Read the rest of this entry »